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Ponera elegantissima

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Formicidae

Taxonomy
Ponera elegantissima was named by Meunier (1922). It is a compression fossil. Its type locality is Rott (Bauckhorn coll), which is in a MP 30 lacustrine - large lignite in Germany.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1922Ponera elegantissima Meunier p. 508 fig. 2
1923Ponera elegantissima Meunier p. 609
2012Ponera elegantissima Bolton
2014Ponera elegantissima Schmidt and Shattuck

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
—Bilateria
—EubilateriaAx 1987
—Protostomia
—Ecdysozoa
—Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
—Dicondylia
—Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
—NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
RankNameAuthor
—Holometabola
—Hymenopterida
orderHymenoptera
—Unicalcarida
suborderApocritaGerstaecker 1867
—Aculeata()
superfamilyFormicoidea
familyFormicidae()
—Antennoclypeata
subfamilyPonerinae
tribePonerini
genusPoneraLatreille 1804
specieselegantissima

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Ponera elegantissima Meunier 1922
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: chitinc
Environment: terrestrialc
Locomotion: actively mobilep
Created: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Modified: 2017-04-17 09:56:18
Source: c = class, p = phylum
References: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range: MP 30 or 28.40000 to 23.03000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
MP 3028.4 - 23.03Germany (Nordrhein-Westfalen) Ponera elegantissima (type locality: 138696)